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New Zealand Politics
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Politics of New Zealand.
Party politics
Historically the two largest, and oldest, parties are the New Zealand Labour Party (formed in 1916) and the New Zealand National Party (formed in 1936). Labour has generally positioned itself as centre-left in New Zealand politics, and has featured socialist (historically) and social-democratic principles in its platform and legislation, while National has generally positioned itself as centre-right, and has liberal and conservative tendencies. Other smaller parties represented in Parliament, following the October 2023 general election, are the ACT Party (right-wing, classical-liberal and conservative), the Green Party (left-wing, green politics), New Zealand First (right-wing, populist and nationalist), and Te Pāti Māori (left-wing, Māori rights-based).